Little Johnny took a drink but now will drink no more

For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4

Neat, I've never seen that version before. The one I know is:

Johnny was a chemist's son
but Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H2O
was H2SO4.

Fun fact: unlike some other site that shall not be named, Lemmy's markdown can do subscripts!

Little Johnny took a drink
but now will drink no more
For what he thought was H~2~O
was H~2~SO~4~

Strong acids are weak, you'd notice the boiling acid flavor and spit it out with the rest of your mouth lining right away.

Johnny was a corporate stooge,

but Johnny's words untrue;

what Johnny sold as H2O

was H2O4U.

> Little Johnny took a drink  
> but now will drink no more  
> For what he thought was H~2~O  
>  was H~2~SO~4~

Really? It's the squiggly to make subscript? I thought that was used for strike through?

Something something H2SO4

Is H~2~O~4~U chemically possibly? I feel like you could make a chain out of the oxygens and put hydrogen at both ends but I don't hear anything more that O~3~

Two squiggles for strikethrough; one squiggle for ~subscript~; and no squiggle for you!

Not as written. But uranyl peroxide is a thing.

There’s UO~4~·4(H~2~O) studtite and UO~4~·2(H~2~O) metastudtite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranyl_peroxide

Awww, the redditor by the name TheZyde understood the joke!

Apparently it’s real.

Strikethrough is double-tilde double-squiggly.

I don't want to be guy who needs to read the NMR spectra of this stuff.

Doubt you'd die from drinking a bit of sulphuric acid, probably would spit it out as soon as you notice your tongue is burning anyway.

This is what i missed about old reddit the most.

Love it 😘

where's the reference for these?

I'll boof that ish if you will

Johnny knew not water

For he forgot vater

My father is he who speaks through me

And thus I express simply

That ain't water I just drank

It's getting dark, I'm gunna have one last wank

I don't think it's complete, though; some you just have to discover for yourself (or guess from familiarity with Markdown on other platforms).

ah , seems my client has some helpful shortcuts

cool ~stuff.~

Wouldn't that be uranic dihydrogen peroxide?

I'm pretty sure dioxide peroxide is not a thing.

Listen here, you piece of shit, the original image is h2o4u which reads as water for you. Stop inventing words

you could still get badly hurt if you swallow faster than you can spit it out

yeah lots of minerals can contain water. it's known as water of crystallization